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Originally Posted by Bonez
from what i have actually read we set a disproportionate amount of soldiers to our population (not like 10 - 20% of the population more like 40 - 60%) and were given the shittiest jobs, dieppe, vimmy ridge, as well as allmost the entire italian campaign upto the point where rome was liberated(history books know why the british and canadians didn't liberate it, and the reason sucks). oh and i forgot so this i have to add, were also involved in the pacific before pearl harbour. and in china during the invasion by japan.
not to mention was the training ground for the entire Commonwealth RAF(royal air force), and were constantly involved in the hunting of german subs in the atlantic, and intercepting german bombers over britan.
history is written by the winner and the winner is whoever still has the most money after war.
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I said nothing about how much you contributed in terms of porportion to your population, I was meaning in total numbers. You simply didn't have the sheer numbers the more heavily populated US, Russia, and Britain had at the time. I think recorded losses are somewhere around 40,000 Canadians killed in fighting in WW-II as opposed to 250,000 Americans, 319,000 Brits, and 13.5 million Russians. I am not saying either that the Canadian effort was any less, just saying that the larger numbers are going to stand out more to historians and people in general not from Canada themselves.
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